Dear all,
Yesterday, Torn Apart
/ Separados went live. This project was conceived and initially
executed by Manan Ahmed (Columbia), Maira Álvarez (U Houston), Sylvia
Fernández (U Houston), Alex Gil (Columbia), Merisa Martinez (U Borås),
Moacir de Sá Pereira (NYU), Linda Rodriguez (NYU), and Roopika Risam
(Salem State). It pulls together all the publicly available data these
researchers could find on family separation at the US-Mexico border, and
offers powerful visualizations of it.
Wired picked this up and wrote
an article on it.
Here at DH2018, the team is
running two hackathons (yesterday and Friday) to continue the work,
which is just beginning. I don't know what opportunities there will be
to contribute remotely or when, but if you are interested in doing so,
please keep an eye on the #TornApart and #Separados hash tags on
Twitter.
This is digital humanities at its best, folks. They pulled the site
together in a week. The topic could not be more timely. And at this
year's DH conference, with its Bridges/Puentes theme, we're rolling up
our sleeves.
-Vika
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Dr. Vika Zafrin
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Boston University
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